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by gnode 2441 days ago
As I stated in the last paragraph of my comment:

> Mozilla is based in a country with sweeping surveillance legislation, and so should not be trusted to hold or process [potentially] personally identifying data, no matter how well intentioned they themselves may be.

Even if Mozilla are completely trustworthy, nothing is stopping them from being forced to give up all that data with a national security letter (accompanied with the customary gag order), to be mined for insights by alphabet agencies.

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What insights would alphabet agencies hope to gain from detailed statistics on page load times?